Ron Arico of Poughkeepsie, a former full-time deputy sheriff in the county, said then-sheriff Lawrence Quinlan introduced him to Liddy, who at the time was an assistant district attorney. I heard him speak a couple times, Arico recalled. And he was the one who inspired me to go into law enforcement. He s a part of history. I couldn t not be here.
Tom O Neill, of Wappingers Falls, knew Liddy in a professional capacity. He was my attorney before he went to Washington, O Neill said. He always cared about everybody.
As an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County in the 1960s, Liddy gained a reputation for fighting drug use, even arresting Timothy Leary, who was well-known for his psychedelic experiments with the therapeutic use of LSD in the Town of Washington.